Top 191 Wayne Quotes

Hey, I’m like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz – I have other people do my dirty work while I skate around and get to be a nice guy. What can I say? I’m a coward.

Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.

I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation.

I think, first and foremost, Wayne Rooney is a class player. Wherever he is on the pitch, he can make an impact.

Lil Wayne and I are really close. We have a really close, personal relationship, and I really like him a lot. We have a great chemistry.

My favorite sequels are basically all Mike Myers films – ‘Wayne’s World 2,’ ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,’ ‘Shrek 2.’ Anything he does, it’s best the second time around. He needs to do ‘So I Married an Axe Murderer 2.’

You’ve got different people that have different views of New Orleans. When you say ‘New Orleans,’ you have people who just think of the Neville Brothers. You’ve got people that think of Louis Armstrong. You say ‘New Orleans,’ and you’ve got people that think of Lil’ Wayne.

I was assistant in Edmonton with Wayne as captain, and Kevin Lowe was the other assistant.

I just love westerns. One of my favourite actors is John Wayne, probably one of the most underrated actors there’s ever been. He’s quite an incredible actor.

I’d been playing everything and decided that this was something I maybe wanted to make a career out of. I knew where some companies were, but I saw the name ‘Bethesda, Maryland’ on ‘Wayne Gretzky Hockey 3.’

I listened to a lot of Jamaican vibes growing up. A lot of Bob Marley, Shabba Ranks, but also, Lil Wayne and Tupac.

My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.

In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype you see in those westerns.

I loved Lil Wayne growing up; he was like the king when I was growing up. I remember ‘Fireman.’ That was one of my favorite songs.

I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova.

Years later I made a movie with Wayne Newton, who has Arabians.

I’m just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I’d never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn’t be working.

You look at the best players in the game – Wayne Gretzky, Bobby Orr – they didn’t sit on the couch and then one day join the NHL. They worked on their game. Their talent was perseverance, dedication. Those are talents to me; that’s what gets you to the NHL.

I get to play behind Al MacInnis and learn from him. I get to play with Brett Hull. There were like six or seven Hall of Famers that I would play with during my time in St. Louis. I mean, Wayne Gretzky was traded there my first year.

I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.

I can’t go to bed with John Wayne, so I do the next best thing: I go to bed with my girlfriend, who once met the great man. That’s how much I love westerns.

Wen wu contradicts the very American notion of John Wayne being the ideal of manhood. In the wen wu way of thinking, it’s much more important to restrain rather than exert yourself through brute power.

The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.

I watch television all the time, mostly PBS and old movies like ‘The Quiet Man,’ my favorite Wayne movie. It’s marvelous. I just loved the man and still do.

The people we grew up watching and listening to – Outkast, Gucci Mane, Hot Boys, Lil Wayne, Master P – all that type of stuff, we took those styles and made it our own.

I went over to say hi to Rob and he introduced me to Wayne and Fred. I had made a radical purchase of some brown Beatle boots. Wayne was like ‘Where did you get those boots! Who is this guy?

I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived.

I was very fortunate that I had a great scouting staff at Everton from the academy, because it was those people who got the likes of Ross Barkley and Wayne Rooney when they were young.

‘True Grit’ was fun to do, but I wasn’t cut out to be an actor. I made John Wayne look so good, he won his only Oscar.

The Undertaker is the John Wayne of our business. I watched him come out and deliver some of the best matches night after night.

Lil Wayne, that’s my brother. Birdman, that’s family.

Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.

I watched a lot of ‘Wayne’s World’ on repeat.

I have periods where I listen to regular rap, Jay-Z, Eminem and Lil Wayne. The next day I might have some Christian alternative music. The next day I have on some dance music. It all varies what I listen to.

Bruce Wayne is Batman. He became Batman the instant his parents were murdered. Batman needs Bruce, however hollow that identity feels to him from time to time. Bruce keeps Batman human.

By the age of 17, Wayne was confident. He knew, ‘This is what I am. I’m an MC.’ You had Missy Elliott saying she loved Lil Wayne. Lyrically, he was getting better and better.

On the radio there’s only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people’s attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.

I wish I could rap! I wish I could rap like Azealia Banks or Lil Wayne or someone like that… Twista. He’s super fast.

I’m going to smash Wayne McCullough to bits. And when you see him smashed to bits, you’re going to see the same thing I’d have done to Barry McGuigan, his friend and idol.

My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who’d worked as a cowboy when he was young. He’d participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.

I’ve got a superstar like Usher singing bachata, a tune featuring Lil Wayne. I’m offering people more than just bachata. That captures a new audience that would listen to bachata because Usher is singing.

My favorite player growing up was Wayne Chrebet, and the day I met him was one of the best days of my life. It’s something I’ll never forget, no matter who your role models are, no matter who you look up to.

I definitely remember doing ‘The Alamo’ with John Wayne and Lawrence Harvey and Linda Cristal. We’d work six days a week, and then John Wayne would invite us down to a little place in Texas called Del Rio, and we would break bread and have some wine and tell stories.

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.

Justin Bieber was born with the Superman powers. He could sing, he could dance, he could play instruments. I wasn’t born with those gifts, so I had to become a different kind of superhero… I’m a normal Joe. But, with a lot of effort, I’ve got a shot at being Bruce Wayne.

I have so many playlists full of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown.

Early on in my life, I got two older brothers; we used to listen to Eminem, 50 Cent, Lil Wayne.

I’ve seen John Wayne’s ‘True Grit’ about 10 times.

People don’t assume John Wayne shoots people and rides a horse on weekends.

I have played a handful of rounds of golf with Wayne Gretzky.

One of my favorite reggae songs is Wayne Wonder’s ‘No Letting Go.’ And Sizzla ‘Give Me A Try.’ That’s one of my favorite songs as well.

I gave John Wayne the push he needed to get that Oscar.

In non-fiction, I like Wayne Dyer. I have a compilation of his best quotes near my bed! To me he’s one of the finest authors.

The idea of doing a buffer, sexier Riddler – I like that. I think he’s a reflection of Batman, and I think of him like a scary, evil Batman. Like Bruce Wayne without a conscience.

If my parents or Wayne’s parents are around and can watch the kids and give us a bit of spare time, then on a Friday night I like to pamper myself and relax.

Everybody can’t be Lil Wayne. Some of us have to pick up a book.

Wayne Lukas was the bar. Wayne impacted Quarter Horse racing and thoroughbred racing like no other.

Before, I used to just make songs all day and now, with so much business and other things that I have in my personal life, I don’t have time to sit around and make songs like I used to. I wish I did. I wish I could practice on my craft all day and just be in the studio like I feel Lil Wayne does.

I’m not in good enough shape to be Batman. I’ll just be Bruce Wayne.

When Wayne was traded, I became captain. For me it really wasn’t anything – I didn’t do anything or I didn’t feel I had to do anything different than what I had been doing all along.